Improvement in factitious beer



UNITED STATES FERDINAND LUEDKE,

PATENT OFFICE.

on NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN FACTITIOUS BEER.

Specification formingipnrt of Letters Patent N0. 30,147, dated September 25, 1860.

imitation beer.

To manufacture said compound, I take one pound of powdered sugar and one pint of red wine (claret or anyother red wine) and let the same boil until the mass becomes well mixed, thick, and of a dark brown-color. I then add one pint of red wine, or a little more, until the mass becomes a thin fluid. I then take one pound of sugar, and mix with the same so much of this dark fluid as above prepared until I obtain the desired color of the beer, and add then two ounces powdered gum-arabie, three and one-half ounces of bicarbonate of soda, and three (3) ounces of powdered tartaric acid, and mix the whole well in a mortar. Then allow the mixture to dry and pass through afine sieve. hen dry and sieved,I add six ounces of powdered sugar,

and the compound is ready for use.

One tea-spoonful of this mixture added to half a pint of water produces a very pleasant effervescent imitation beer. I

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of sugar, red wine, gumarabic, bicarbonate of soda, and tartaric acid in the manner and in the proportions sub 7 stantially as described, and forthe purpose set forth.

FERDINAND LUEDKE.

Witnesses:

HENRY E. ROEDER, JAMES H. DAVIDSON. 

